While up until the 60s it appears to have been fairly common
for some performance artists to sell or turnover the rights
to their music to their record labels, I'm not sure if that's
ever been true with writers and thus the author would own the
copyright not the publishing company. The rights purchased
would be limited to first North American or European or Asian
or Wherever and possibly foreign and paperback too, but there
would be a limit to what rights the publisher owned. I doubt
any would have the ability to sue unless the author were to
publish with them one month and then with someone else in the
same covered area the next.

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Anthony Dauer
Alexandria, Virginia
Judas is looking for a few Femme Fatales for its next issue:
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:18 PM
I wonder, though, if any publishers have tried to sue, or get
remuneration for authors' recycling of stories on which they might hold
the copyright.
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